Re: lingo-l Resizing the stage

2006-07-20 Thread James Newton
On 20/7/06 1:48 am, John Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone could tell me if it possible to write Lingo that detects the user's monitor size and re-sizes the Stage in a projector to fit that monitor size - and if there is what that code might be? Hi John, Have a look

Re: lingo-l passwords

2006-05-17 Thread James Newton
On 17/5/06 8:18 am, Michael von Aichberger 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to protect a Director movie against unauthorized use. Before the program starts, the user has to enter his name and a password. Is it safe to store both in a list like that: authorizationL = [[#name : john, #pw:

Re: lingo-l spherize

2006-05-10 Thread James Newton
Michael Nadel skrev: Thanks! Now it works. But it takes a few seconds for the spherize effect to happen. I'm getting millisecond values of over 2000. Is that normal? On 10/5/06 1:10 pm, Christoffer Enedahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could make a lower quality variant by using copypixels to

Re: lingo-l artistic journey

2006-04-25 Thread James Newton
On 25/4/06 7:48 am, Michael Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on a project which is meant to be an artistic journey through various themes... I am looking for ideas in Lingo, and I am even willing to pay (through PayPal) for good ideas. What I need is a way to present a bunch of

Re: lingo-l photo morph

2006-04-03 Thread James Newton
On 3/4/06 3:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone ever did a Photo-morph thingie where you can drag your mouse to deform a bitmap? (or has a link to one) Hi Chris, http://nonlinear.openspark.com/tips/imaging/goo Cheers, James [To remove yourself from this list, or to

Re: lingo-l Call for Experts: Logging through Lingo???

2006-03-31 Thread James Newton
On 31/3/06 2:24 am, Leila Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - We would need some kind of solution that would track the path of a visitor through various pages of content in much the same way that Apache does for web sites; e.g., what buttons were clicked, what movies were watched, dates,

Re: lingo-l Questions about LDM's

2006-01-30 Thread James Newton
On 30/1/06 10:23 am, Tim Welford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Does an LDM run at the framerate of the LDM movie or the framerate of the moive it is placed in. Hi Tim, This is simple to test. You can create a basic animation with a tweened Shape sprite, with a framerate of (say) 5 frames per

Re: lingo-l command-line parameters for a projector

2006-01-25 Thread James Newton
On 25/1/06 6:32 am, Slava Paperno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I double-click a data file that I have associated with a projector, and the projector is started, is the name of the file I clicked communicated to the projector? Put differently, How does a projector know what command-line

Re: lingo-l interesting question

2005-12-12 Thread James Newton
On 12/12/05 8:47 pm, Michael Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 365 words (as bitmaps) in English as seperate cast members, and 365 translations in French (as bitmaps). I want to know if there's a way using imaging lingo (which I am not good at) to somehow make 365 cast members that have

Re: lingo-l tone separation with Imaging Lingo

2005-12-08 Thread James Newton
On 7/12/05 10:51 pm, Michael von Aichberger 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe some of you know what equidensities are: these are zones of equal or similar tonal values in a black and white negative. At the time one used lith film masks to get them. I need to do something like that with an

Re: lingo-l make screen into member

2005-12-05 Thread James Newton
Michael Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to take a part of the screen, (for example the Rect(19, 54, 602, 418)) and make whatever appears on the screen in that rect into a bitmap cast member (to be able to print it as a single member)? Hi Michael, If the area is part of the

Re: lingo-l Is Director/Lingo capable?

2005-11-24 Thread James Newton
On 24/11/05 12:01 pm, PHILIP LUCAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a black ball (object1) ... once set in motion will travel towards a curve (object2) at a constant angle to the curve of say 50 degrees. Once it reaches and passes that curve it looks for the next curve to pass it also at 50 degrees

Re: lingo-l Is Director/Lingo capable?

2005-11-24 Thread James Newton
On 24/11/05 12:01 pm, PHILIP LUCAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a black ball (object1) ... once set in motion will travel towards a curve (object2) at a constant angle to the curve of say 50 degrees. Once it reaches and passes that curve it looks for the next curve to pass it also at 50 degrees

Re: lingo-l Is Director/Lingo capable?

2005-11-24 Thread James Newton
On 25/11/05 3:03 am, PHILIP LUCAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James... Thanks so much for the advice. I need certainly to look at ALL aspects as I am so new to developing. I could break my needs down into the following; a) certainly need a hand with mathematical coding for the automatic path

Re: lingo-l Text scroll with hilite word

2005-11-23 Thread James Newton
On 23/11/05 12:51 pm, Rods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some huge text members that I've implemented a search using preg xtra. Now I need to hilite the search result and when the user click next button the text will scroll to the position of the other result and so on, something like web

Re: lingo-l expand a triangle via arbitrary hypotenuse length?

2005-11-17 Thread James Newton
On 17/11/05 1:14 pm, julian weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the hypotenuse of a pair of coordinates e.g. [71,36] and [139,111] = 101 i want to expand the hypotenuse to 150 and update my coordinates accordingly. on ScaleHypotenuse(aPoint1, aPoint2, aTarget) -- --

Re: lingo-l pregex sort help

2005-11-07 Thread James Newton
On 7/11/05 1:17 pm, Tim Welford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have experience of using the PRegEx_Sort() function of the pregex xtra, I am baffled by what all the arguments mean and how to use them, this is probably because it is Monday and I am being a bit thick. Can it be used to

Re: lingo-l omitting linked scripts as protection

2005-10-08 Thread James Newton
On 7/10/05 5:04 pm, Cole Tierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if one could protect a project by simply omitting external scripts. The only down side I can think of is not having other assets protected. Has anyone ever tried or considered this? Hi Cole, If you option-drag a script

Re: lingo-l 3d rotate() y value flip flop weirdness ------ ( not the transform.rotation bug)

2005-10-07 Thread James Newton
On 7/10/05 3:08 pm, julian weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting inconsistent integer values returned whilst rotating a ipix exported 3d sphere using .rotate(0, somevalue, 0) This is problematic as I'm using the rotation vector to calculate the current rotation position in degrees.

Re: lingo-l what's going on?

2005-10-05 Thread James Newton
On 27/9/05 6:14 pm, arjen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some of the lingo in a handler doesn't get excecuted. director just exits the handler without any error, and continues running. Hi Arjen, Where does the event originate? If it originates in an xtra (Multiuser, Flash, TreeView, OSControl,

Re: lingo-l Invisible sprites and mouse events

2005-08-25 Thread James Newton
On 8/25/05 9:19 PM, Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know why an invisible sprite would be getting mouse events? Because it's a text sprite... The only invisible sprite that is responding to mouse events is a text sprite. ... with hyperlinks? [To remove yourself from

Re: lingo-l Onscreen magnifyer

2005-08-18 Thread James Newton
On 8/18/05 5:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... in his excellent book Director Shockwave Studio, James Newton covers how to use Imaging Lingo to magnify and/or distort a certain portion of the stage. Source code for all the examples in the book is now on-line at: Mac http

Re: lingo-l Page Turning effect

2005-07-06 Thread James Newton
On 7/6/05 1:46 PM, Stev [ ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was hoping someone could suggest a way of having a page turning effect / transition between sprites. i need something that can be re-used on the fly as i could have up to 1000 pages Hi Stev,

Re: lingo-l MPEG ADVANCE Xtra

2005-06-27 Thread James Newton
On 6/27/05 2:14 PM, Jonathan Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When jumping from a frame with a mpeg video playing the projector crashes with a memory out of range error. This does not happen when playing the file from director. Hi Jonathan, My first suspect in the this plays in Director but not

Re: lingo-l Buying MX 2004

2005-06-26 Thread James Newton
On 6/26/05 7:43 AM, Alex da Franca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone ever saw the printed manuals, which were sold ? have they ever been finished ? are they in the same style, the documentation used to be ? Hi Alex, I have the Director Scripting Reference. This is a two-volume work with over

Re: lingo-l Buying MX 2004

2005-06-26 Thread James Newton
On 6/26/05 6:37 PM, Thomas Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it was a thought out process by our docs team that was to arrange the entries by object as opposed to by alpha. Hi Tom, But the DMX 2004 Lingo *Dictionary* is *not* arranged by object... [+] As far as I recall, there always has been

lingo-l LineFeed and FileIO (was: Conversion of string into variable name)

2005-06-17 Thread James Newton
On 6/17/05 8:29 AM, Carl West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in MX, fileIO seems to be reading text in with linefeeds instead of returns. Did I miss something here? In 8.5 I recall it reading in with returns. Am I delusional? I'm sure I used to be able to use line[x] on text read-in by fileIO. Hi

Re: lingo-l hiding some globals from clearglobals

2005-06-16 Thread James Newton
On 6/16/05 9:40 PM, Cole Tierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm working on a project that needs to go movie some existing_movie. The problem is that this existing_movie calls clearglobals a couple times and tromps on my global space. I could get access to existing_movie and toss a

Re: lingo-l More File I/O Questions...

2005-06-06 Thread James Newton
On 6/6/05 4:26 PM, Allen Stare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the client wants to put some simple product information (Product #; Product Name; Size; etc.) in tabbed columns in the ASCII text. Is there any way to get rid of the visible tab box but retain the function of the tab between words? Hi

Re: lingo-l Sprite Image

2005-06-01 Thread James Newton
On 6/1/05 8:05 PM, Kerry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alpha in the copy is a bit off from the original, though. The image I used was a wheelbarrow, with a shadow in the alpha channel. The shadow was copied, but it's several shades lighter than the original. Hi Kerry, Ink? If you

Re: lingo-l File IO Text Import Problem

2005-05-06 Thread James Newton
On 5/6/05 5:57 AM, Allen Stare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To my question: I am importing text files created in notepad on Windows. I'm using the readFile command with an instance of the FileIO Xtra in 8.5 to read the contents of the files. When I place the imported text in a field on the stage,

Re: lingo-l File IO Text Import Problem

2005-05-06 Thread James Newton
characters are showing up as boxes. On 5/6/05 7:26 AM, James Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simplest solution to your problem would be to use the ReplaceAll() handler (below) to replace all Line Feed characters with EMPTY... Hello again Allen, On DougWiki, I've added a tutorial on importing

{Spam?} Re: lingo-l script error when running from a projector

2005-03-28 Thread James Newton
On 28/3/05 6:12 pm, Michael Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to know what the script error is when running from a projector? Cuz the error only happens in a projector Hi Michael, I suspect that this might be due to a missing xtra. Have you checked that all the required script

Re: lingo-l Net Operations - Some Answers - Some questions

2005-03-22 Thread James Newton
On 22/3/05 9:30 am, Jayp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realise its an age old topic here but i was trawling the web trying to find the best/quickest way to detect an internet connection. Hi Jayp, You might find this article interesting: http://www.director-online.com/buildArticle.php?id=1148

Re: lingo-l sprite communication syntax?

2005-03-09 Thread James Newton
On 9/3/05 4:45 pm, Anthony W. Fouts, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using the following syntax for quite some time for calling methods in behaviors attached to sprites: -- sendsprite(spriteNum, #callSomeMethod, someParameter) It occurred to me that I call methods in child

Re: lingo-l Timer in Director

2005-03-01 Thread James Newton
On 3/1/05 5:30 PM, Ali Aghighi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have question about timers starttimer in director, If I can use two timer at the same time, How I can define each timer for several member?!? Hi Ali, There is only one the timer. If you need more than one timing device, you will need